Flamebound by unfinished
We made a puzzle game where the flame must survive. The only Control you need is left mouse button.
IMPORTANT: If you go through water, your torch is wet and you have to look for a new one. This could be made more clear in the game, but there was noooo time :).
| Youtube | https://mrmasterbit.itch.io/flamebound |
| Youtube | https://mrmasterbit.itch.io/flamebound |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/flamebound |
Ratings
| Overall | 2307th | 2.895⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 2318th | 2.632⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1330th | 3.237⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1286th | 3.632⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 2086th | 2.789⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 1400th | 2.75⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 2008th | 1.722⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 2050th | 2.842⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 15🗳️ | 9🗨️ |
Good:
The puzzles (the first couple of levels) and the mechanics are nice and a game could be built around them.
Could be improved:
Overall, the game has a heavy, slow, feeling around it, a bit like a graveyard walk. It is slow, and all the clicking doesn't help. It would play a lot nicer, if you streamlined the controls a bit, and allowed the player to move anywhere with just one click, and all actions were not done by double clicking on areas. Adding icons for all the possible actions could help too.
I did got stuck at level 4 or 5 with those circular yellow cheese things.
In fact, I did it correctly and I lit my torch at the tree even with turns left, but the game just tells me it's over. I think that's a bug you should (and are allowed to) fix.
Unfortunately, despite using just the mouse, I found the controls very unintuitive and confusing, which made it hard for me to get very far in the game. The having to click a second time for every action didn't make it harder to do the wrong thing, but just made doing the right thing take longer for me.
With some polish, this could be a really solid movement based puzzle game like DROD.
But I don't get how to past the level 3?